On June 26, 2000 Yahoo Selected Google to provide its organic search results (replacing Inktomi) with its impressive index of more than 25 million pages; again, huge for the time. The continued strength of Google as a search provider is based on a...
Inktomi also released a new version of its search engine that claimed this index level. But by the end of that year, AltaVista and Inktomi began the first of the serious Search Engine Size Wars, competing to claim the bragging rights of being biggest.
As mentioned, Inktomi eventually solved the dual index issue by reengineering everything and moving to a new system. Revisiting Inktomi, the company appears to have initially gone to a two index solution because its existing system may not have...
As a search expert, you never seemed to know which of Inktomi's partners was hitting all of its information or only the popular Best Of The Web index. Inktomi did the same thing in the past, rolling out what became known as the small "Best Of The...
The only problem is that there's no way to know which ones Inktomi already feels should naturally be included in its index, even if you don't pay. We're going to continue crawling the web much as we have, using the same kind of popularity analysis...
In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomiindex. We're going to continue crawling the web much as we have, using the same kind...
In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomiindex. We're going to continue crawling the web much as we have, using the same kind...
We're going to continue crawling the web much as we have, using the same kind of popularity analysis to build the bulk of our index," said Troy Toman, general manager of Inktomi's search solutions division.
We're going to continue crawling the web much as we have, using the same kind of popularity analysis to build the bulk of our index," said Troy Toman, general manager of Inktomi's search solutions division.
The variation in coverage reflects what I and others have written about in the past -- not all Inktomi partners tap completely into its 110 million page index. Lycos: 14.0% Northern Light: 9.8% Google: 7.0% AltaVista: 6.7% Infoseek: 5.5% Inktomi...
The variation in coverage reflects what I and others have written about in the past -- not all Inktomi partners tap completely into its 110 million page index. Lycos: 14.0% Northern Light: 9.8% Google: 7.0% AltaVista: 6.7% Infoseek: 5.5% Inktomi...
The variation in coverage reflects what I and others have written about in the past -- not all Inktomi partners tap completely into its 110 million page index. Northern Light: 16% AltaVista: 15.5% Inktomi (Snap): 15.5% Inktomi (HotBot): 11.3...
The variation in coverage reflects what I and others have written about in the past -- not all Inktomi partners tap completely into its 110 million page index. Northern Light: 16% AltaVista: 15.5% Inktomi (Snap): 15.5% Inktomi (HotBot): 11.3...
A number of people have noticed that Yahoo's Inktomi-powered web results are different from those that appear when the same search is performed at Inktomi-powered HotBot. Inktomi: One Database, But Different Results